CHAPTER XLI

Doubt One glance she gave at that sinister figure, and then she turned and fled to her room, locking the door behind her. It was incredible, impossible, outside the bounds of reason. Her father! And who had been his visitor? She heard the soft purr of a car, but did not get up to look. Instinctively she knew that the stranger had gone and that it was the stranger whose sobs she had heard. But Mr. Howett--the Green Archer! Her brain whirled. She sat with her head in her hands, and did not stir when she heard him go …